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Fallout
02:51
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their hair a field of broken glass
where went that cracker jack smile?
what's knocked them on their asses?
what driving need of the species
to bring it all down,down?
i'm not a faithful man but
let me walk you through this
Fall out, fall out
when you get beaten up but you're still looking pretty
fall out, fall out
the worm is in the core
fall out, fall out
you crawl through your life but you stand when you're spitting
fall out, fall out
there's still one man who can make you shudder
there go the hipster rebels
here come the acolytes
what the plague don't take the fire sure will
fall out, fall out
a brilliant light blooms over nagasaki
fall out, fall out
what happened at nan king?
fall out, fall out
the boom days are gone but you're still drinking saki
fall out, fall out
there's a day still coming that'll make you shudder
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i had an American dream
i rolled it up into a zig-zag paper and smoked it as a means
to get me to that higher ground
where i could look down and see history before it rolled round
that's where i met some friends
who led me to my ordination
so that i could cash in on that last days coronations
we took a chance that god wore a skirt instead of the pants
hope crashes in
it's drowning you, disfiguring me
hope crashes in
like the smell of despair but with the sick taste of gin
what about those cheerleader girls
who punched up your sister when she was just a kid in school?
all those beautiful twirls
masquing twisted intentions to be cruel
so that when the sky comes down
got to keep your eyes open
see the method in the madness
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kabod
03:23
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that girl from lancaster asked, "what does this mean?"
"first seven fat and then seven lean?"
better go eastward or southwards, i guess
couse, there ain't no way back home
i come up from long beach with an old leather sack
found me a woman and never looked back
we live out in sunland in an asbestos shack
i'm a long ass ways from home
let me tell you bout it
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b-movie life
02:36
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i never thought anything could happen
with the girl who drove out to the 10 acre ranch
she arrived at the party
in a ragtop old roadster
her ass in a sling
her eyes in a trance
she's my irrepressible dream pie
i took work as a driver, a builder
making bricks for the temple
of straw and of mud
the OS lives on but i am a husk of a man
being drained of my sweat and my blood
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diamond mind
02:03
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cough it up
better spit out those pieces of your broken teeth
before you choke on them boy
this kind of education doesn’t come easily
too many freaks, too many creeps
too many bastards on the street
so keep your mind clear
don’t let them queer up your thinking
school’s out; your few friends have figured out the move into that sunset mystery
leaving you the dull edged knife of vague regret and misery
your ma and i pissed away our lives waiting for god knows what
there is something to be said
for dragging your ass out of bed and doing the dishes
you’re a g; you’re the one; you’re a find (a whole damned diamond mind)
you’re beautiful boy
the world waits on you
the big clock ticks off time in the middle of your mind
as the sun burns its course overhead screaming, “don’t commit the sin of waste.”
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the desert air
free of stain
the water table is getting lower; we dig and wait for rain
if the rain don’t come
sometimes it won’t
we’ll lay our bodies in the sand and sun
the lizards make a home of our skull
when the next one come
they always do
they’ll find a garden of creosote bones
and our ghosts will let them alone until you
remember us
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johnny lydon's got a bottle of wine
some percoset and he's doing fine
out in the sun garden, yeah
exene cervenka is sleeping all right
percoset takes her through the night, oh yeah
and it's medication time at the old punks home
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Sigourney Weaver
03:13
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I was the first in line
of those blue-jeaned boys who were killing their time on Saturday night
And I didn't mind that you took up the whole damned screen
You were hot, you were cool, you were lean, you were tough- you were really mean
I fell in love with Sigourney Weaver
Know every inch of the arch of her back
Climb those mile-high legs to heaven
Never come back
That's my beanstalk. Just call me Jack
As the years roll by
like some Japanese credits on a video screen at the back of my eye
Say, why am I not surprised to be left here alone with you
Incense, candles burning in a light now flickering blue?
I've got it bad for Sigourney Weaver
Know every centimeter of the line of her mouth
Lori Petty's rough and ready and I know she'd be my betty
I'm holding out
I'm in love but I'm left with No Doubt
What's there to do?
I've built a hot-buttered altar to you
Oh deary how should I fell
About a love so hot?
Darling I get what you've got - but only on the reel
I'm coming hard for Sigourney Weaver
Know every hair in the line of her brow
Milla Jovovich could never tempt me now to make a switch
I'm out and how
I'm in love
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ichabod
03:08
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calamity jane
02:31
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Saturday night at the Yellow Dog Ranch
Both hands are calloused; there's holes in my pants
If I can clean up by a quarter til late, maybe Jane will be waiting at the hitch by my gate
We met in December of '79, her head full of moonshine; lips of lavender wine
She's asked me to dance. I fell to the ground
So she held me up as we turned round and round
Come all you wranglers and stand by my fire
You tell your tall stories I'll call you all liars
For the heart you hold dearest is beyond all desire
Her name is Calamity Jane
She's a long stretch of lightning (she's quicksilver son)
Hard on a man. Good with a gun
If you see me out standing at the hitch by my gate
Take no great sorrow bout my lonesome old fate
Longed all my life, it was well worth the wait
To have danced with Calamity
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